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Yes/No Questions
Ejemplo:
Do you like ice-cream?
Have you had an ice-cream today?
Ejemplo:
Is this your ice-cream?
Wh-Questions
Las partículas interrogativas en inglés son: where, when, why, who, whom,
whose, what y how. Se conocen como wh-words. Las preguntas con partículas
interrogativas se forman igual que las preguntas de sí o no, anteponiendo la
partícula interrogativa al resto de elementos: wh-word + auxiliar + sujeto.
Ejemplo:
How often do you eat ice-cream?
What is your favourite kind of ice-cream?
Ejemplo:
Who is the ice-cream for?
Wh-words
Question
español Uso Ejemplo
word
who quién persona
Who gave
you the
Question
español Uso Ejemplo
word
book?
Who did you
give the
book to?
Who did you
see?
To whom
did you give
whom a quién persona
the book?
Whom did
you see?
What is it?
What did
what qué sujeto o complemento, si no es una persona
you see?
What are
you doing?
What do you
what ... for para qué finalidad
need this
for?
Ejemplo:
Who did you see?
→ Whom did you see?
Ejemplo:
Who did you give the book to?
→ To whom did you give the book?
Estructura de las oraciones interrogativas
Con verbo auxiliar
Ejemplo:
I have had an ice-cream today.
→ Have you had an ice-cream today? (present perfect)
The ice-cream is made with milk.
→ Is the ice-cream made with milk? (pasiva en present simple)
Ice-cream men can eat ice-cream every day.
→ Can ice-cream men eat ice-cream every day? (verbo modal
en present simple)
Ejemplo:
I like ice-cream.
→ Do you like ice-cream?
Nota
Ejemplo:
He eats an ice-cream every day.
→ Does he eat an ice-cream every day? (present simple– 3ª persona del
singular)
She ate an ice-cream yesterday.
→ Did she eat an ice-cream yesterday? (past simple)
Have
El verbo have permite formar oraciones interrogativas de dos maneras. Una de
las opciones es usar el auxiliar do, como se haría con cualquier otro
verbo: do/does + sujeto + have.
Ejemplo:
My mom has an ice-cream machine.
→ Does your mom have an ice-cream machine? (American English)
Ejemplo:
My mum has got an ice-cream machine.
→ Has your mum got an ice-cream machine? (inglés británico)